The pastor Nadia Bolz Weber calls Mary Magdalene the Patron Saint of Showing Up. On that dark Friday, when Jesus was hung up on a cross on a hill outside of Jerusalem, his body broken and bloody, the life seeping out of him, Mary Magdalene showed up, when most of his followers had scattered. She…
Full disclosure: this is a post about birth. So it includes details you may normally classify as “too much information”. Just saying… ** It’s a thing, in blogging world, to write up your birth story and share it with the world. I thought I would. I did so much preparation for Kaya’s birth. I read…
“Often our expectations of how life should unfold get in the way of meeting things as they actually are… When we meet the unexpected with love, rather than opposition, we open the way for a more soulful path through life. In yielding my resistance I already find great healing. In softening my internal rules about…
Karen and I “met” through Leigh’s monthly What I’m Into link ups. I noticed that she was based in Ireland and, always wanting to find more Europe-based bloggers, clicked over to her site. There I found someone with an open and beautiful way of writing that encouraged and inspired me. I also discovered that she…
Ooh, will you take a picture of me here? I asked my sister, handing her my phone. We were on a girlie weekend away together and were in Bath for the day. It was gloriously sunny, just a little of that March nip in the air still, and we were wandering the romantic streets of…
In ten days time I turn 30. It’s one of those age milestones that seems to strike fear into the hearts of many. Every birthday, not least the “big” ones, can usher in the normally-well-buried anxieties about purpose and meaning. How did I get here? Is this really where I am meant to be? Am I…
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